Cassandra is only carbon nowYesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.
wbftw@xgranade had a very similar conversation the other day too; only was able to somewhat shift my interlocutor’s position after pointing out they don’t own this “tool”, and they are at the mercy of fash/oligarch class who can (and will) start extracting rent at any moment.
Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦@wbftw @xgranade Yes! Even if we stick to one domain where “AI” works today (yes yes, FSVO), namely coding assistants, what is the future of non-commercial software if it just becomes normalised that being a programmer means paying rent of tens or hundreds of dollars a month in tokens? And that price rising once everyone is locked in, until the LLM operators can make a profit?